A journey through family history, storytelling, and discovery, exploring my own stories and the stories that continue to capture my imagination.
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The Chiddicks Observer Edition 74
Family history begins with records. But it doesn’t end there.
This week, we go looking for the people hiding behind them. A photograph becomes a doorway into a teacher’s life. A woman who disappeared into the anonymity of the archives is g...
The Men Who Bought Time
There are places where history announces itself and there are places where you have to stop, look around, and realise that something happened here.
Saint-Venant is one of those places.
Stories Behind the Records is a reader-supported publ...
The Chiddicks Observer Edition 73
Family history is often described as a search for names, dates and documents. But the further we dig, the more we realise that the records are only the beginning. This week’s stories take us from a mother’s letters written during a life-cha...
The Trees Remember
There are places where history feels distant.
You read the dates, study the photographs and perhaps pause for a moment before moving on.
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The Chiddicks Observer Edition 72
What do we really leave behind? A photograph. A family story. A name on an immigration document. A house, a landscape, a grave that may or may not still be there. Sometimes it is a feeling we cannot quite explain, a pattern that seems to re...
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Family history researcher and Family Tree Magazine columnist. I write the stories behind the records — the people, places and history that connect us all. Creator of The Chiddicks Observer on Substack. Full-time storyteller, part-time Lego builder.
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